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Things people pretend not to want:

• intensity

• permission

• loss of control

?PASSION


Household checklist

Edges aligned. Surfaces wiped twice. Objects returned to their places.

A note at the bottom:

\t\tDisorder looks like carelessness until you live with it.


He mistook her exactness for control.

She mistook his looseness for indifference. Both were partly right.

A bed made too tightly. Sheets pulled smooth enough to erase evidence of use.


A note beside the description: Restraint leaves marks too.

You just don’t see them immediately.

  1. Be pure.
  2. Be filthy.
  3. Be nothing.
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